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21 Principles of sociology 8 • A student discussion forum: This is an open space for you to discuss interests and experiences, seek support from your peers, work collaboratively to solve problems and discuss subject material. • Videos: There are recorded academic introductions to the subject, interviews and debates and, for some courses, audio-visual tutorials and conclusions. • Recorded lectures: For some courses, where appropriate, the sessions from previous years’ Study Weekends have been recorded and made available. • Study skills: Expert advice on preparing for examinations and developing your digital literacy skills. • Feedback forms. Some of these resources are available for certain courses only, but we are expanding our provision all the time and you should check the VLE regularly for updates. Making use of the Online Library The Online Library contains a huge array of journal articles and other resources to help you read widely and extensively. To access the majority of resources via the Online Library you will either need to use your University of London Student Portal login details, or you will be required to register and use an Athens login: http://tinyurl.com/ollathens The easiest way to locate relevant content and journal articles in the Online Library is to use the Summon search engine. If you are having trouble finding an article listed in a reading list, try removing any punctuation from the title, such as single quotation marks, question marks and colons. For further advice, please see the online help pages: www.external.shl.lon.ac.uk/summon/about.php Hours of study and use of this subject guide You should aim to study this course over eight months and you should spend at least seven hours on this course each week. You will need to read widely and think deeply, discussing the issues raised with other students or colleagues. You should practise answering the short questions in Section A and gradually build up to answering the essays for Sections B and C. You need to make sure that you have clearly understood Sections A and B before moving on to Section C. We have suggested a study schedule here to help you plan your time; this is based on completing your course in one year, starting in October. You will need to adjust this for your own study year.
The examination and examination advice Important: the information and advice given in the following section are based on the examination structure used at the time this guide was written. Please note that subject guides may be used for several years. Because of this we strongly advise you to always check both the current Regulations for relevant information about the examination, and the VLE where you should be advised of any forthcoming changes. You should also carefully check the rubric/instructions on the paper you actually sit and follow those instructions. We have provided you with a detailed examination advice section and a full Sample examination paper at the end of this subject guide (p.335). There is also advice about how the marks are allocated to each style of question in Section A. The examination structure has been designed in such a way that you will be rewarded for your knowledge of the subject and your ability to demonstrate an understanding of the key issues. For Section A, we suggest that you might also like to look at the past years’ examination papers. At the end of Sections B and C, sample examination questions have been included for you to practise on. You are required to know all the material that has been indicated in the subject guide, but more importantly you should indicate that you can understand this, especially the concepts involved and the perspectives of the relevant sociologists. You can demonstrate understanding by answering the question that you have been asked directly. You will be rewarded if your essays are well structured and if you select and use only material that is relevant to the question. You do not need to mention everything that you have learnt and should answer the question economically, using references and examples which indicate that you are aware of the relative importance of each. Remember, it is important to check the VLE for: • up-to-date information on examination and assessment arrangements for this course • where available, past examination papers and Examiners’ commentaries for the course which give advice on how each question might best be answered. Introduction 9
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